Part of the guide: Network Marketing Lead Generation
As I watch people run in circles, wondering why they’re not getting results- I always observe them in total fascination.
Carl Sandburg said, “Nothing happens without first a dream”.
While it may sound ridiculous, the problem with most people building businesses online is they don’t really have a strong reason why they’re doing it.
They have no dream.
When you aim at nothing, you hit it every time.
In this post, I’m going to help you find your ultimate source of motivation, your real why…
…because the first step to building a profitable business or doing just about anything is to have a strong reason WHY.
It seems so simple when people say ‘you show me how to make money, and I’ll know how to spend it’.
Unfortunately for those people, success just doesn’t’ really work that way. Before you can begin to start succeeding in anything, you need to be totally motivated. Motivation comes from knowing why you’re doing it.
Having a benefit of some kind, a why.
Knowing why, and I mean REALLY knowing why is much more important than knowing how or even what you’re doing.
Simply because a strong why provides an unlimited amount of motivation to figure out the how and take massive action.
Back when I started marketing, it was all about me. My reason why was to ‘cure’ my homelessness, to be able to eat the things I wanted to eat, buy the things I wanted to buy. To provide for myself.
Which was effective for a short period of time, I started getting some results because I NEEDED to, I set an outcome to achieve results within 90 days of getting started online. After I covered my own needs, I stopped being so effective.
I wasn’t really motivated to just earn more money, I had no real reason why. It wasn’t until I discovered my true why, my dream; that I sky-rocketed my income and started living my purpose.
Your why is your dream.
Dreams are an idea of creating something better in the future. Some people let their dreams fade, but the people who really succeed, they nourish and protect them until they become their reality.
A dream doesn’t have to be massive. It doesn’t have to transform the lives of millions of people or leave a dent in history.
A dream can be a real desire to serve other people, through a home-based business or whatever else.
They’re not fantasies or wishes. Dreams are burning desires that inspire the dreamer to take action. Dreams can be a mission, and once you find it you can feel like it demands you to take action.
That’s the power of a real dream; they’re like flags of our destiny. There are several levels of dreams.
One dream can be to own a Ferrari in the next year, but that’s merely a surface level or material dream.
Few people transcend this level of dream to the area of significance. Larger dreams are more to do with personal destiny or identity. Why you are here.
The kind of dreams that provide food for the soul. A dream that dominates your thoughts and fuels your ambition. Your dream is your biggest lever in life, it provides more leverage for taking action than anything else.
So I want you to follow this short exercise and get to the bottom of what you really want.
This is how I got to the bottom of what I really wanted, why I’m here and my real source of motivation.
Ask yourself, and write down the answer to the following questions (It’ll take about 15-20 minutes if you do it properly):
What do you want, and why do you want it?
This can be a car, a new home, to quit your job, anything on the surface level.
Now when you have that, what will that get you that you don’t have now?
Write down all answers, now again…
You were never meant to do this alone
Reading this changes nothing. Doing it with people who show up changes everything. That is the whole difference between the people who transform and the people who keep starting over.
Start free →When you have that, what will that give you that you don’t have now?
Again…
When you have that, what will that give you that you don’t have now?
Keep asking the question, until you go deep down, down into your unconscious mind, into the void, the silence. Embrace the silence, now ask yourself again, and answers will appear from the subconscious.
When you have that, what will that give you that you don’t have now?
That’s the power of a real WHY.
Do this properly, and you’ll come up with your ultimate why. When you do, use it to fuel your ambition, your motivation to take massive action, create magical results and create the life you want, now.
P.S. Leave me your thoughts, comments and questions below.
Comments
Jaxon D
This is an amazing post! It really resonates with me, especially when you talk about finding the real motivation behind your actions. Keep up the great work, David!
Alice
I love how this post makes you think deeply about your ‘why’. I had to pause and reflect for a while. Thanks for the inspiration!
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SamanthaM
This post is so insightful! I’ve been struggling with my motivation, but now I realize it’s because I haven’t defined my “why”. Thanks for sharing this, David!
RobertT
I’m a bit skeptical about the long-term impact of finding a ‘why’. Can you share any success stories or evidence to back this up?
EmilyG
Great post, David! I’m curious, how did you discover your own “why”, and what was the process like for you?
MichaelL
Honestly, I think this whole concept of finding a “why” is overrated. It’s more important to focus on skills and discipline.
ChrisP
Hey David, fantastic post! It reminded me of the time we used to talk about this stuff. Let’s catch up soon. How have you been?
NicoleF
This post speaks to me! I faced a similar challenge when I started my business, and it wasn’t until I identified my core motivation that things began to change. Thanks for the reminder.
JamesK
If you’re into self-improvement, you should also check out MindTools—they offer some great resources on motivation and goal-setting.
AnnaV
I’ve learned so much from this post! The step-by-step approach to discovering your “why” is something I’m definitely going to implement. Thanks, David!
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In plain English: keep asking “and then what” until you cry or get bored. That’s the fifteen minute exercise, minus the talk of dreams and destiny.
Gail, what the post is describing without naming it is a laddering technique, used in market research and values-clarification work for decades to get past a stated preference to the underlying motivation behind it. It’s a legitimate method, the “why do you want that” chain genuinely does surface something most people haven’t consciously named. Where the post overreaches is treating the output as a fixed destiny rather than one snapshot of a person’s current priorities, which the research suggests actually shifts more than people expect over a few years.
So the actual process is: input, the surface want, then the ladder question repeated four or five times, then output, the underlying motivator. Useful to draw it that way because it shows where it can fail — if you stop laddering at step two you get a Ferrari, not a why, and the post itself even flags that as the shallow version. The failure point isn’t the technique, it’s stopping too early.
The exercise is a fine one for clarifying motivation. It says nothing about whether motivation is actually the bottleneck for most people who try this and don’t succeed. From the financing side, I’ve seen plenty of highly motivated people with a very clear why fail for reasons that had nothing to do with wanting it enough — capital, timing, market conditions. Worth knowing your why. Also worth not assuming it’s the only variable.
I did this exercise properly once, took the fifteen minutes, wrote down four levels of “and then what,” arrived at something that felt genuinely true. Then I spent the following two months refining the wording of that why instead of doing anything the why was supposedly fuelling. So I’d add a step six to the post: once you have it, stop looking at it and go do the thing, because knowing your motivation with total clarity is a very comfortable place to get stuck.